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DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.
Verboticisms
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Cattribute
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kat trib yewt
Sentence: When Jimmy Rattner met Catrina, he thought her devotion to cats was cute. One of her main cattributes was wearing jewellery, clothing, hair accessories, purses and shoes with cat designs on them. After never seeing her in anything but cat couture, he started to grow tired of it all. She finally invited him in for a coffee & a KitKat, only for him to discover her other cattribute was to own 20 cats in a one-bedroom apartment. So used his main rattribute and ran out on her without a word, never to call again. Rats! she thought...Cat must have got his tongue.
Etymology: Cat (feline mammal) & Attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Agitrait
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: aj/i/treyt
Sentence: His nose-picking became a major agitrait for his girlfriend.
Etymology: agitate + trait
Nasdi
Created by: adbern
Pronunciation: nes-di
Sentence: you never take a shower, you'r a nasdi
Etymology: nasty en dirty
Abiquirk
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation: ahb-i-kwerk
Sentence: Jimmy's demeanor had several fatal abiquirks.
Etymology: abort(to end) + quirk(an eccentricity)
Tickleme
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /'tik-&l-"mE/
Sentence: While the toddler quickly learned that affecting a lisp was a good way to get adults to do what she wanted, it wasn't until long after it started having the opposite effect that she realized it for the tickleme it was.
Etymology: As in the "Tickle-me Elmo" doll. Some (not all) may have found it once cute, but no talking toy with less than a 50-sentence vocabulary can help but become annoying after awhile.
Endearaffront
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: en-DEER-a-front
Sentence: Connie's neighing laugh had at first seemed endearing, but Jerry was so endearaffronted by it that he was planning to desert her.
Etymology: endear (attract) + affront (offense) + Ends here (it's all over as of now)
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COMMENTS:
Better late than never - petaj, 2007-02-16: 02:12:00
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Damnerism
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: dam.e.rism
Sentence: A few months and a few damnerisms later they decided to quit trying and got a divorce
Etymology: damn+mannerism
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COMMENTS:
Hey W5, I think you're the best! I'm voting for your word today! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
thanks meister, I liked that word myself, actually - w5lf9s, 2007-02-16: 02:05:00
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Sexappall
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: seks-uh-pall
Sentence: Over time, Sue realized that Bob had developed sexappall; not only did he pass gas in public, he loudly rated his emissions on a scale of 1 to 10.
Etymology: sex appeal, appall
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COMMENTS:
maybe that explains the wilted flowers - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 13:22:00
Very likely. Who would want a fartner with such a terrible characteristink? - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 14:43:00
You'd better be careful purple - this infiltration of verbospeak may require a verbotomy lobotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-02-15: 15:40:00
Lingosuction? OHNOOOOOOOOOO!!! - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 17:27:00
this is getting wordiculous...absword even - rikboyee, 2007-02-15: 19:31:00
(Methinks rikboyee needs lingosuction more than I.) - purpleartichokes, 2007-02-15: 19:42:00
very funny! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 21:11:00
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Idiosyncrazy
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: dry-vin-mee-NUTZ
Sentence: I swear, if Sheila develops one more friggin' idiosyncrazy involving unicorns, I am OUTTA there!
Etymology: idiosyncracy (little personal quirk) + crazy (not sane)
Relationslip
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ree/lay/shun/slip
Sentence: Playing air guitar every time he said something funny was cute at first but turned into a giant relationslip
Etymology: relationship + slip
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COMMENTS:
This is good and goofy! - wordmeister, 2007-02-15: 17:13:00
thanks wordmeister - porsche, 2007-02-16: 09:38:00
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Comments:
wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...
ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.